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Manuscript, dated 1841, comprising a rough draft copy of a letter of G Polidori, in his own hand, to Viscount de Chateaubriand, announcing the despatch of Polidori's translation of Milton's Paradise Lost, followed by Polidori's copy of Chateaubriand's reply. Bound with an offprint, Louis Brandin's 'Lettres Inédités de Gaetano Polidori et de Chateaubriand', Modern Language Review, vol xi, no 2, Apr 1916.

Manuscript volume, 15th century, containing St Bonaventure's 'Leggenda di S Francesco' (Life of St Francis).

Manuscript volume, late 15th or early 16th century, containing Juvenal's Satirae 1-16 (satires).

Manuscript volume, 19th century [before 1876]: Richard Troward's 'Latinum inverso ordine vocabularium' (Latin vocabulary in reverse order), possibly in his own hand.

Manuscript volume, 15th century: Breviarum Ad Usum Fratrum Minorum (Breviary for the use of Friars Minor).

Manuscript volume, 1532, containing St Bonaventure's 'Legenda Beatissimi patris nostri Francisci' (Life of St Francis). The pastedowns are two leaves of a 12th-century homiliary.

Manuscript volume, 15th century, containing Bartholomew of Pisa's 'De Conformitate Vitae Sancti Francisci Ad Vitam Domini Jesu Christi' (On the conformity of the life of Saint Francis to the life of our Lord Jesus Christ) and lists of privileges etc granted to the Friars Minor (Franciscans), extracted from papal registers by Marcus Trevisanus, minister of the Roman province. The list is dated 1418 in the rubric on folio 313v.

Manuscript volume, 13th century: Vitae Sanctorum et Sermones, containing saints' lives, notes on festivals, and sermons for saints' days.

Manuscript volume, c1300: Martyrologium (martyrology), for Franciscan use, with calendar tables.

Thirteenth-century manuscript volume. The back bears the inscription: Fragment of 13th century lectionary. The volume comprises fragments of two different manuscripts: Breviarium (breviary, ff 1-18), written for Franciscan use and including hagiographical texts; Missale (missal, ff 19-27v). Very fine miniature depicting the Crucifixion on folio 19r, missing the left hand figure.

Manuscript Jewish service book [1811]: Benedictions.

Manuscript Jewish service book, 1890: Piyyutim for distinguished Sabbaths, Ashkenazic rite.

Manuscript Jewish service book, undated: Benedictions.

Manuscript Jewish service book [1695]: Rosh ha-shanah, rite of Carpentras. With a commentary styled 'Seder Eliahu zuta' by Elijah Karmi.

Manuscript Samaritan service book [1788-1789].

Two manuscript volumes, 1827: Melange Arabe. Texte et traduction. Traductions diversées, tirées, ainsi que le texte Oriental, pour la plus part du Journal Asiatique, par M Perron (texts on the East, including works of writers on royal dynasties).

Papers, 1840-1972, of and relating to Karl Pearson, comprising personal and family papers, 1844-1937 (Ref: 1-45); lectures and lecture notes, 1874-1972 (Ref: 46-84); papers relating to literary and scientific work [1870]-1936 (Ref: 85-229); papers relating to the history of the Department of Applied Statistics, University College London, 1895-1936 (Ref: 230-258); papers relating to the work of the Department of Statistics and of Pearson's colleagues, 1895-1962 (Ref: 267-346); papers relating to the journal Biometrika, 1900-1954 (Ref: 347-570); papers relating to Pearson's The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton, 1840-1931 (Ref: 571-598); papers relating to Pearson's wartime research (1914-1918), 1905-1923 (Ref: 599-612); acquired papers, 1842-1923 (Ref: 613-623); general correspondence [1843-1972] (Ref: 624-933). The collection also includes papers of Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at University College London), 1860-1935 (Ref: 259-266).

Records of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, 1840-1958, comprising reports, accounts, minutes, cash books, agreements and other business records, and including some records of the Australasian Pacific Mail Steam Packet Company, Nelson Line, and the Australian Royal Mail Steam Packet Company.

Records, 1872, of Rosario and Cordova Water Works Company, comprising prospectus, memorandum of association, and contract for acquisition of concession and construction of works, with plans attached.

Manuscript 'Glossaire des moeurs, coûtumes etc de France', compiled by Jean Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye for his Glossaire de l'ancienne langue françoise, 18th century, and comprising an alphabetical arrangement of topics on French manners and customs, with marginal references giving the volume and page of the manuscript or printed source from which the extracts were made.

Prospectuses for mortgages, debentures, shares, and other forms of capital issued by asset managers J Henry Schröder Company for the construction of various Latin America infrastructure including railroads and cities. The prospectuses have been listed for each company, which were formed to improve infrastructure in Peru, Chile, Cuba, Argentina and Brazil.

Papers, 1942-c1970, of Patrick Smith, largely typescript dispatches or transcripts for broadcasts for the BBC on foreign affairs from various locations where he was stationed, and including material on World War Two, and on affairs in the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Papers, c1680-c1770, of four successive vicars of Tewkesbury, comprising sermons, commonplace books, religious commentaries on text, theological expositions, essays, and miscellaneous religious writings. Many of the volumes contain only sermons, by John Matthews. Although Henry Jones (senior) is included in the dedication, none of the writings can be directly attributed to him.

Townsend's journals. Also correspondence, personal files, postcards, art photographs, press cuttings, newspapers, typescripts of poems and articles, and general professional papers concerning colleges and exhibitions in Canada and the UK.

William Hunter Baillie's transcript of the autobiographic memoranda of his father, Matthew Baillie (1761-1823), 1854, copied from the original, with a letter from William Hunter Baillie commenting on the text of the memoranda

Medical formulary, [1640s]-[1680s]. Includes collection of medical receipts in Bathurst's handwriting, and notes on Homer, Xenophon, and the Bible, mid-late C17th

The Brain archive comprises his personal and professional papers together with sampled case notes from his private practice, 1865-1977. As well as medical papers, there is a significant amount of material relating to Brain's philosophical and literary interests, and some papers of Brain's family and of his wife Stella (nee Langdon-Down).

Brooke's scrapbook and letters relating to her work as a Health Visitor, 1919- c.1952. Scrapbook includes photographs, notes and annual reports of the Child Welfare Department of University College Hospital; Letters sent to Brooke, 1947 and n.d., and a typescript history of the Department, c.1952, which were originally interleaved with the scrapbook.

Burges' papers, 1767-c.1790s, include records of his medical cases, 1769-75; Printed copy of the St George's Hospital Pharmacopoeia, with annotations by Burges, mid-late 18th century (c.1770s-80s); his lecture notes on various subjects, such as materia medica, Boerhaave's institutes, and the hydraulic and chemical systems, mid-late 18th century (c.1770s-90s); Notes on diseases, and on chemistry and materia medica, mid-late 18th century (c.1770s-90s).

Cheadle's papers, 1877-1934, include his notes on the use of anti-scorbutic treatment for scurvy in young children, includes notes of six cases, with temperature charts, 1877-88. Also includes explanatory notes from J.F. Poynton, 1910; Original paintings and photograph of infantile scurvy by Cheadle, from the cases of Sir Thomas Barlow, to accompany Cheadle's original records of the cases, [1877-79], with letter presenting paintings to the College from Poynton, 1934.

Clark's papers, c.1870, consist of his notes of lectures on anatomy and physiology, in his hand. It is thought the lectures were delivered at the London Hospital.

Cockayne's professional and personal papers, 1907-46, consist of his casebook, 1913-34, with patient-lists, notes and loose correspondence regarding patients; and his papers, 1907-46, including his medical registration certificates, 1907-9; notes on patients, with accompanying charts, on medical subjects, such as pyloric stenosis, 1934-38, and on entomological specimens; correspondence about his patients at Great Ormond Street, 1935, about his retirement and requests to serve on Committees, 1922-46; and articles and notes on various subjects, such as the medical history of the First World War, 1915-32.

The diary and visiting list of Edward Hayling Coleman, 1850.

Papers and war medals of Sir John Josias Conybeare, 1915-1972. Includes his First World War diary, 1915; Military medals and orders awarded to him during the First and the Second World Wars, including the Military Cross and KBE insignia, 1915-1945; Medical notebook, 1916-24; Lecture notes on the subject of Aviation Medicine, n.d., c.1939-45; and letters from William Neville Mann (1911-2001) to the College offering the medical notebook and lecture notes for the College's archives, 1970-72.

Book of medical recipes, entitled at front 'A Booke of Physicall Rec[eipts] Worth the Observing and Keeping: for Mrs Alice Corffilde', and at back 'Famous Receipts Worth Attending'.

Volume of pharmacopocia by Thomas Crane entitled 'Pharmacopocia Dr. Caroli Scarborough Esq. Aurat. Med. Reg. primarii, a reverendo Authoris Filio Carolo Rectore de Upway Comunicata', [1739].

Papers of Sir Edward Dodds, relating in part to his professional life and in part to his historical and other outside interests. They include notes and correspondence about the illnesses of King George V and his daughter Princess Mary as well as biographical material about Dodds himself.

'Some requirements for modern clinical teaching', 1913.

This small collection comprises tickets of admission to University of Edinburgh lectures; letters of confirmation of attendance at lectures; professional diplomas and Gorman's Grant of Arms.

Correspondence and papers of William Alexander Greenhill, 1839-1894, mainly relating to medical biography including notes on Galen; notes on the classification of animals; printed drawings of surgical instruments; notes on Arabic medicine and transcripts of Arabic texts; five engravings of Halle and engraving of A H Francke's Monument; prescriptions; biographical notes on doctors and other eminent men and correspondence, chiefly on his work on Galen.

Medical notebook of George Gregory, 1813-1833, containing cases, observations and notes on medicine and surgery.

Leonard George Guthrie's MD thesis on chloroform narcosis in children, unpublished typescript, 1893.

Notebooks of William Harrison containing notes on the practice of physic, pharmacy, midwifery, varia and botany, materia medica, toxicology and chemistry, [1852].

Papers of Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, 1889-1906, consisting of his author's copy of Archives of Surgery (1889-1900), printed with annotations in his hand and interleaved with letters to him from practitioners whose patients' cases he describes.

Latham's papers, c.1797-1811, include his notebooks on food and digestion, materia medica and therapeutics, c.1797-1811, and his unpublished dissertation on asthma, in his hand, c. 1810.

Latham's papers, 1838-1871, include his casebook, 1838-39, and his lectures on fever and the pulse, in his hand, 1871.

Munk's papers, 1849-1922, include his copy of Benjamin Hutchinson's Biographia Medica with additional biographies in Munk's hand, c.1850-c.1860, which probably formed the basis of his Roll of the Royal College of Physicians (Munk's Roll); Manuscript copy of Munk's 'Biographia Medica Devoniensis', containing over fifty biographies, c.1860; Notebook entitled 'Notae Breves ad Medicina Praxin Praecipue Pertinentes', consisting mainly of prescriptions, c.1889-1891; History of the College, in Munk's hand, mid-late 19th century, and newspaper cuttings and notes, some in Munk's hand, relating to the College's history, mid-late 19th century; Biographical notes regarding Munk's Roll and the College, 1849-1922, notes, prescriptions, and extracts from medical writers, c.1889, possibly rough notes for his 'Notae Breves...', copy of 1759 Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, and typescript of document detailing Sir John Cutler's loan of money to the College in 1675.

English translation by N Peters in 1739 of Richard Lower's Tractatus de corde (1699), with finely drawn copies of the seven plates at the end.

'A book of Surgerie and Phisick of Mistress Honorie Henslow', by Andrewe Plowden, Servant to Mistress Honore Henslow, 1601.

1 notebook of biographical memoirs.